Dr Giles Miller

Dr Giles Miller

Principal Curator, Micropalaeontology and SCIC IP

Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology
Group: Mineralogy Collections
Specialisms: Collections Management, Micropalaeontology, conodonts, Palaeozoic Ostracods, Palaeozoic stratigraphy, Ocean Bottom Sediments
Email: g.miller@nhm.ac.uk
  • Phone: 0044 20 7942 5415

Summary

Over 30 years experience as a Micropalaeontology curator at NHM. Currently Principal Curator in charge of staff who curate the Fossil Invertebrate, Plant and Micropalaeontology collections. Research interests mainly Palaeozoic ostracods, conodonts and ocean bottom sediments; over 70 peer reviewed articles on a wide range of micropalaeontological and palaeontological groups and subjects. Keen advocate of museum collections and their applications.

Qualifications

Degrees

  • PhD, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, 1989 - 1993
  • B.Sc. (Hons), University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 1986 - 1993

Employment history

Academic

  • Adjunct Lecturer, Universiti Teknologie PETRONAS, Petroleum Geoscience, Malaysia, 2012 - 2015

Highlighted publications

  • King DJ, Wade BS, Liska RD, Miller CG (2020) A review of the importance of the Caribbean region in Oligo-Miocene low latitude planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and the implications for modern biogeochronological schemes. Earth-Science Reviews, Elsevier BV : 102968 - 102968. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102968
  • Rillo MC, Miller CG, Kucera M, Ezard THG (2020) Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment. Ecology and Evolution, (20) Wiley : 11579 - 11590. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6792
  • Heward AP, Miller CG, Booth GA (2019) The Early Ordovician Middle Shale Member (Am3) of the Amdeh Formation and further evidence of conodont faunas from the Sultanate of Oman. Geological Magazine, (8) Cambridge University Press (CUP) : 1357 - 1374. doi: 10.1017/s0016756818000729
  • Hsiang AY, Brombacher A, Rillo MC, Mleneck‐Vautravers MJ, Conn S, Lordsmith S, Jentzen A, Henehan MJ, Metcalfe B, Fenton IS, Wade BS, Fox L, Meilland J, Davis CV, Baranowski U, Groeneveld J, Edgar KM, Movellan A, Aze T, Dowsett HJ, Miller CG, Rios N, Hull PM (2019) Endless Forams: >34,000 Modern Planktonic Foraminiferal Images for Taxonomic Training and Automated Species Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, (7) American Geophysical Union (AGU) : 1157 - 1177. doi: 10.1029/2019pa003612
  • Sanz-López J, Blanco-Ferrera S, Miller CG (2019) The apparatus of the Carboniferous conodont Vogelgnathus simplicatus and the early evolution of the genus. Journal of Paleontology, (1) Cambridge University Press (CUP) : 126 - 136. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2018.66
  • HEWARD AP, BOOTH GA, FORTEY RA, MILLER CG, SANSOM IJ (2018) Darriwilian shallow-marine deposits from the Sultanate of Oman, a poorly known portion of the Arabian margin of Gondwana. Geological Magazine, (1) Cambridge University Press (CUP) : 59 - 84. doi: 10.1017/s0016756816000819
  • Miller CG, Heward AP, Mossoni A, Sansom IJ (2018) Two new early balognathid conodont genera from the Ordovician of Oman and comments on the early evolution of prioniodontid conodonts. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, (7) Informa UK Limited : 571 - 593. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1314985
  • Miller CG (2013) A brief history of modelling Foraminifera: from d’Orbigny to Zheng Shouyi.. Landmarks in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology: History and Development. Bowden AJ, Gregory FJ, Henderson AS (Eds).Geological Society, London: London. : 337 - 349.
  • BENNETT CE, SIVETER DJ, DAVIES SJ, WILLIAMS M, WILKINSON IP, BROWNE M, MILLER CG (2012) Ostracods from freshwater and brackish environments of the Carboniferous of the Midland Valley of Scotland: the early colonization of terrestrial water bodies. Geological Magazine, (3) Cambridge University Press (CUP) : 366 - 396. doi: 10.1017/s0016756811000719
  • Fortey RA, Heward AP, Miller CG (2011) Sedimentary facies and trilobite and conodont faunas of the Ordovician Rann Formation, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. GEOARABIA, (4) : 127 - 152.
  • Miller CG, Williams M, Siveter DJ (2010) Palaeocope ostracods from the Silurian Wenlock Series of Arctic Canada. Jin J (Eds).Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, (6) Canadian Science Publishing : 913 - 925. doi: 10.1139/e10-010
  • Matzke-Karasz R, Smith RJ, Symonova R, Miller CG, Tafforeau P (2009) Sexual Intercourse Involving Giant Sperm in Cretaceous Ostracode. Science, (5934) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) : 1535 - 1535. doi: 10.1126/science.1173898
  • SANSOM IJ, MILLER CG, HEWARD A, DAVIES NS, BOOTH GA, FORTEY RA, PARIS F (2009) ORDOVICIAN FISH FROM THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. Palaeontology, (2) Wiley : 337 - 342. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00846.x
  • Giles Miller C, Lowe M (2008) The Natural History Museum Blaschka collections. Historical Biology, (1) Informa UK Limited : 51 - 62. doi: 10.1080/08912960701677531
  • Miller CG (2007) Growth in early species of the conodont Ancyrodella and implications for correlation of the Middle-Upper Devonian boundary. GEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, (4) : 443 - 452.
  • Märss T, MILLER CG (2004) Thelodonts and associated conodonts from the Silurian to lowermost Devonian (Llandovery-Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology, 47(5) : 1211 - 1266.
  • Giles Miller C, Richter M, Do Carmo DA (2002) Fish and ostracod remains from the Santos Basin (Cretaceous to Recent), Brazil. Geological Journal, (4) Wiley : 297 - 316. doi: 10.1002/gj.917
  • Blom H, Märss T, Miller CG (2001) Silurian and earliest Devonian birkeniid anaspids from the Northern Hemisphere. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, (3) Cambridge University Press (CUP) : 263 - 323. doi: 10.1017/s0263593300000250
  • Miller CG, Märss T (1999) A conodont, thelodont and acanthodian fauna from the Lower Přídolí (Silurian) of the Much Wenlock area, Shropshire. Palaeontology, (4) Wiley : 691 - 714. doi: 10.1111/1475-4983.00093
  • Miller CG (1995) Ostracode and conodont distribution across the Ludlow/Prídolí boundary of Wales and the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology, (2) : 341 - 382.
  • Fenton IS, Baranowski U, Boscolo-Galazzo F, Cheales H, Fox L, King DJ, Larkin C, Latas M, Liebrand D, Miller CG, Nilsson-Kerr K, Piga E, Pugh H, Remmelzwaal S, Roseby ZA, Smith YM, Stukins S, Taylor B, Woodhouse A, Worne S, Pearson PN, Poole CR, Wade BS, Purvis A Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology, (2) Copernicus GmbH : 431 - 443. doi: 10.5194/jm-37-431-2018
  • Fox L, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton. Scientific Reports, (1) Springer Science and Business Media LLCdoi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58501-w
  • Männik P, Miller G, Hairapetian V A new early Silurian prioniodontid conodont with three P elements from Iran and associated species. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)doi: 10.4202/app.00003.2013
  • Miller CG, Cornish L, Jones C, Jones CG, Henderson AS A new laser method for cleaning micropalaeontological specimens. Journal of Micropalaeontology, (2) Copernicus GmbH : 165 - 169. doi: 10.1144/jm.23.2.165
  • Miller CG, Aldridge RJ The taxonomy and apparatus structure of the Silurian distomodontid conodont <i>Coryssognathus</i> Link & Druce, 1972. Journal of Micropalaeontology, (2) Copernicus GmbH : 241 - 255. doi: 10.1144/jm.12.2.241
  • Miller CG, Aldridge RJ <i>Ozarkodina remscheidensis</i> plexus conodonts from the upper Ludlow (Silurian) of the Welsh Borderland and Wales. Journal of Micropalaeontology, (1) Copernicus GmbH : 41 - 49. doi: 10.1144/jm.16.1.41

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